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The Anglo-Welsh aristocrats George Herbert (15931633) and Edward Herbert (15831648) are striking examples of an early European republic of letters in a moment of transition, before and during the Thirty Years War. Each in his own way conceived of his republic as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity. This volume argues that in the Herbert brothers' lives and works, a cosmopolitanism born of warfare and strife imagined a radical communion and openness. The contributors explore a variety of texts and media, including poetry, musical practices, autobiography, letters, council literature, orations, philosophical and historical works and nascent religious anthropology. All served as agents of the circulation and construction of collective responses to human conflict and violence.

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Author:   Greg Miller (Professor Emeritus of English) ,  Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781526164094

ISBN 10:   1526164094
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   02 August 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: contentious communion—Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise Part I Thinking beyond borders: War and peace 1 The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: Experiences of the tragic and historiographic genres in Edward Herbert and George Herbert—Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise 2 The Thirty Years’ War and George Herbert’s communion, an answer to violence—Greg Miller 3 “Being” James I: Herbert of Cherbury’s vexed diplomacy—Nancy Zaice 4 Ceremony and self: Belligerent civility in Edward Herbert’s Autobiography—Michael Schoenfeldt Part II Reconsidering conformity, community and universality 5 “Gerson, a Spirituall Man”: Herbert and the University of Paris’s reformist chancellor— Christopher Hodgkins 6 Conformity and consent in Herbert of Cherbury—Anita Sherman 7 “Devout Humanism” and its problems: George Herbert and François de Sales—Richard Strier 8 George Herbert’s The Country Parson and John Calvin’s pastoral advice—Kristine A. Wolberg and Lynnette St. George 9 Edward Herbert’s The Amazon and De Veritate—Cristina Malcolmson Part III Voices of transnational communities: From conversation to song 10 Edward Herbert within the fellowship of gentlemen plain speakers—Sean H. McDowell 11 “The little World the Great shall blaze”: Edward Herbert, Thomas Carew, Giambattista Marino, and the poetics of embassy—Eleanor Hardy 12 George Herbert and three French Protestant poets (Chandieu, Grévin, Sponde)—Guillaume Coatalen 13 Becoming “a Citizen of the world”: Edward Herbert and continental music-making— Simon Jackson 14 “Sweet Singers of our Israel”: French psalmody, the Sidneys and George Herbert—Helen Wilcox Bibliography Index -- .

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Greg Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

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